Akshata Sharma
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While addressing a public rally in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said that the government has set a target of eliminating diesel and petrol vehicles within 10 years.
"I want to eliminate diesel and petrol vehicles from this country within 10 years. Nowadays, electric scooter, car and bus have come. While you spend Rs 100 on diesel, they consume electricity worth Rs 4," Gadkari said.
According to the Vahan portal (a portal that tracks numbers related to vehicles in the country), India has already witnessed a rise in the adoption of electric vehicles and there has been a consistent increase in the sales of electric vehicles from April 2023 to April 2024.
This is not the first time that Nitin Gadkari has stated his plans to eliminate ICE cars.
In April, the Union minister gave an interview to ANI on similar lines. However, one major difference was that he didn’t commit a date and year for this transformation at that time. This time he has explicitly stated that the target is to make it happen in the next 10 years.
He also emphasised that now people are more open to other alternatives. The Union minister had mentioned companies like Bajaj, TVS and Hero planning to manufacture motorcycles with flex fuels and also the introduction of hydrogen-powered cars by Tata and Ashok Leyland, as well as trucks running on LNG/CNG.
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